The Wild Ones
How can we help Critically Endangered animals? Follow a team of wildlife filmmakers as they journey to the world's remotest corners trying to capture groundbreaking footage of the world's most elusive species using cutting edge technology.
On this factual entertainment style - conservation expedition series Tom was a producer on the Gorillas episode, joining the production during pre-production to run camera trapping expeditions and recces to locations to develop episode narratives in advance of the main expeditions. On the Gorillas expedition itself,. Tom ran production shoot logistics on the ground for an expedition team of over 30 crew, as well as directing a second camera unit and occasionally shooting himself. Tom also developed impact strategy elements to run alongside the series, to maximise the impact of the films themselves and bolster support for the important conservation work featured in the series.
Earthsounds
This 12-part landmark Apple TV+ series uses audio technology and cinematic 360 sound design to reveal the unexpected, unfamiliar and untold natural stories on every continent of the planet. Packed with extraordinary never before heard behaviours, this series redefines our understanding of animal communication in the natural world.
Tom’s role on this series was multi-skilled and varied, being a key part of the production team from the project’s inception. He worked with audio legend Chris Watson to choose the perfect suite of audio kit to record the wide range of soundscapes across the series, and produced and edit produced many of the ‘Behind the Sounds’ sequences after leading on the series style for these segments. He also led on sustainability across the production, working with BAFTA Albert to create a new way of recording carbon footprints for natural history shoots - something or which the series won the first ever award for Innovation in Green Production at the Jackson Wild Media Awards. The series has also won an Emmy for Sound, an RTS award for Photography and been nominated for a BAFTA for Sound.
The Polar Worlds episode of Earthsounds was Tom’s directorial debut – taking him from Svalbard to film polar bear and walrus, to Antarctica to film emperor penguins. He also field produced the African Plains episode, directed a sequence with Jana Winderen on the Listening to Our Planet episode, and features in the ‘Behind the Sounds’ of Polar Worlds as he records the sounds from above and below the Antarctic ice shelf.
Earth at Night
This landmark Apple TV+ series reveals the night in glorious full colour like never before. Filmed by moonlight, and using the latest camera and post production technologies, each episode follows the character arc of different nocturnal animals.
A lone lioness loses her cubs on the moonlit Maasai Mara plains; a tarsier family hunt under the stars in Sulawesi jungles; a peregrine falcon hunts under the neon glow of Chicago’s tower-blocks. Packed with never-before-seen behaviours and driven by emotional character-led stories, this 12-part revolutionary series redefines the way we see our night time world.
On this series Tom field directed the Tarsier Forest episode, as well as select sequences on the Lion Grasslands and Cheetah Plains episodes, directing and often self-shooting the ‘Behing the Scenes’ segments for those episodes too. Tom also shot second camera on Cheetah Plains, capturing a cheetah hunting at night on camera for the first time.
Earth at Night in Color has won or been nominated for several accolades, including BAFTA, Royal Television Society, IDA Documentary Awards, Cinema Eye and Jackson Wild Media Awards.
